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Papers are being solicited for a new anthology under the working title
Remembering Los Olvidados: New Perspectives on Luis Bu?uel's Mexican
Classic.
The themes and issues of Bu?uel's powerful urban drama are as relevant
today as they were in 1950. Over fifty years after its release, the
film
continues to reflect the social reality of life in Mexico City and
inspiring filmmakers and audiences, with its innovative style and
content
and its exciting revision of genre and narrative. Los Olvidados opened
up
new ways of looking at Mexico, the Cityscape, and Surrealism. Through
its
unsentimental treatment of childhood and the family it introduced
Mexican
cinema to a wider international audience, motivating new critical
evaluations and encouraging innovative filmmaking throughout Latin
America.
It is a film that not only marked a true turning point in Bu?uel's
career,
but continues to be central in Mexican, Latin American, and World cinema
history.
The editors are looking for previously unpublished essays (20-30 pages
in
length) that revisit and reconsider Los Olvidados to offer fresh,
contemporary perspectives on the film.
The aim of the anthology is:
*To explore the immense impact the film has had on both past and present
Mexican, Latin American, and World Cinema, its place in Bu?uel's career
and
its relation to other Surrealist Cinema, Art, or Literature.
*To provide a forum in which new and innovative critical approaches to
Los
Olvidados can be read.
The book is aimed at scholars and students of film, cultural and media
studies as well as Luis Bu?uel enthusiasts.
Please send two copies of papers (hardcopy) or 400 word abstracts (via
email) by June 15, 2002, to Prof. Ernesto R. Acevedo-Mu?oz, Film Studies
Program, 283 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0283 USA,
([log in to unmask]); or to Ceri Higgins, Department of Art,
Design and Media, The University of Sunderland, Forster Building,
Chester
Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD UK, ([log in to unmask]).
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